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Phillips 2B
Votto 1B
Ludwick LF
Bruce RF
Frazier 3B
Cozart SS
Mesoraco C
Leake P
Choo CF
Phillips 2B
Votto 1B
Ludwick LF
Bruce RF
Frazier 3B
Cozart SS
Mesoraco C
Leake P
Good to see Mes back in there. Wish Bruce would be in the 4 spot. Ludwick's swing is still off. He had a number of meatballs to hit off Harang last night and was late on every one of them.
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Meet the Mets
1. Eric Young (S) LF
2. Daniel Murphy (L) 2B
3. David Wright (R) 3B
4. Lucas Duda (L) 1B
5. Juan Lagares (R) CF
6. Mike Baxter (L) RF
7. Travis d'Arnaud (R) C
8. Wilfredo Tovar (R) SS
9. Jon Niese (L) P
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Jonathan Niese is a pretty good lefty who this year has been tougher against lefties than righties. Over this career, the gap is narrower, still better against lefties.
This year he has had trouble away from Citifield (.846 away OPS against) and has not had a good September so far in four outings.
Reds have very few at bats against him, Phillips with 16 official at bats and a 1.188 OPS. Votto .792 OPS in 12 at bats (four walks), Bruce .833 in 10. Reds hitters combined have an .812 OPS against him, including five homers, in a total of 80 official at bats (excludes pitchers).
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Would love to see ludwick get a few big hits and some positive momentum before the playoffs start. His bat is needed in our lineup...even if he doesn't have all of his power back.
Good lineup for lefty. Tomorrow I go:
Hamilton CF
Choo LF
Votto 1B
Bruce RF
Phillips 2B
Frazier 3B
Cozart SS
Rocco/Hanigan (depending on who is pitching)
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- - Rowdy Roddy Piper
"It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong. I am not a big man"
- - Fletch
why cant Dusty say "Hey Ryan,, your not getting it done, Billy is playing" HMM?? is that so hard to do or hurting his feelings?
He's missed time and the Reds want to give him a chance to get going. Especially against a lefty.
Tomorrow Lud will sit. This will cause 350 posts on RedsZone. But Dusty usually rests Ludwick every series and did most of last season too.
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- - Rowdy Roddy Piper
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- - Fletch
Tonights game is the free game of the day on mlb.com.
No bow ties?!?!?!
Rounding third and heading for home...
Young singles, then a fly out.
Wright up, first inning.
Young steals second, high throw.
Full count on Wright.
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47 steals for Eric Young.
Billy Hamilton won't catch him
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Baccalaureate 2013
President Ronald D. Liebowitz
May 25, 2013—Mead Chapel
Good afternoon. On behalf of the faculty, staff, and trustees of the College, I extend a warm welcome to you, the Class of 2013, and to your parents, families, and friends who have joined you on campus this weekend to celebrate your accomplishments.
Today we reflect on your experiences over the past four years and on your contributions to our community and the world beyond the College. And, of course, since this is Commencement weekend, we look ahead, as well, to future opportunities as you begin the next chapter of your lives.
Let me begin by telling you a few things about the graduating class:
- There are 661 graduates in this class (including February and May graduates), 331 men and 330 women.
- The most popular major was economics, followed by political science, environmental studies, psychology, international and global studies, and English and American literatures.
- More than 400 of you studied abroad for a semester or a year, and you did so in 49 different countries.
- More than 20 percent of this class completed the requirements for a joint or dual major.
- More students in this class hail from New York than from any other state, with Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, and Connecticut rounding out the top five.
- One hundred members of the Class of 2013 come from outside the United States, representing 55 different countries.
Members of your class have won:
- A Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
- A Keasbey Fellowship
- A Truman Scholarship
- Fulbright Scholarships; and
- State Department Critical Language Scholarships
In keeping with long-standing Middlebury tradition, many of you have published papers in scholarly journals and presented your work at national conferences.
The imagination of this class was on display April 18 and 19 during the seventh-annual College-wide symposium recognizing student research and creativity. More than 150 members of the class participated in the symposium by presenting their research or demonstrating special talents in the performing arts.
And speaking of the symposium, the arts events associated with it included: the Senior Thesis Dance Concert, Music in the Museum, a demonstration of digital music, and performances by the Mountain Ayres, Middlebury Mamajamas, and MiddJazz ensemble. There was a live display of theatrical costumes, the screening of student-produced films including six by members of this class. Nine seniors played instruments in the Musical Showcase; two short plays from the Middlebury New Play Festival were performed with seniors in the cast; and a drama written by a member of this class was staged at the Hepburn Zoo. Another member of this class will have a professional production of his play at Theaterforum in Berlin next January, and his senior thesis play has been held over for possible production at the 2014 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
This past year the Dance Company of Middlebury performed locally and toured nationally. It was also a busy and fruitful year for the seniors in the theatre program, choral groups, and musical ensembles, too.
In athletics, 154 of you played on varsity teams, which, during your time at Middlebury, won 13 NESCAC championships, two national team championships, and two national individual championships. In addition (and perhaps more importantly), 107 members of the Class of 2013 were named to all-academic teams for their prowess in the classroom and on the field of play.
The Solar Decathlon has been a focal point for this class, as the College's involvement in the program has its roots in 2009, the year you entered Middlebury. Fifteen members of the class were active participants on the 2011 SD team and 30 of you are involved with InSite House, the College's 2013 project. As one current Solar Decathlon member said, "The seniors demonstrated true leadership through their respect for, and collaboration with, other members of the team. The seniors have been the critical thinkers who applied their liberal arts education to meet the challenges of our real-world project."
Twenty-two of you earned Public Service Leadership Awards from the College for your volunteerism, activism, and advocacy for others.
One hundred twelve members of this class were involved with the Project on Creativity and Innovation, or P.C.I., during their years at Middlebury.
- Fourteen students developed their own businesses through the Winter Term course, "Middlebury Entrepreneurs."
- At least seven sustainable companies were started and developed by members of this class.
- Students in this class were instrumental in the creation of the M Gallery in the Old Stone Mill, which, beginning in the fall, will have a sister gallery at Kirk Alumni Center, to be called the K Gallery.
Two members of this class received a grant from the Center for Social Entrepreneurship to train international health organizations in the use of GIS technology to improve their services in third-world countries
Two students received Davis Projects for Peace grants, one to build a library in Kenya and the other to educate and train future entrepreneurs in India.
And four students from the graduating class are using Davis Projects for Peace as a case study to assess the impact of student-driven social change projects.
The Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity also benefitted from the leadership exhibited by the Class of 2013. Five members of the class served on the CCSRE's student advisory board, and two members were interns at the Center in 2012-13. This senior class, in particular, has played a key role in creating programs that have become signature events for the Center.
This is just a sample of the accomplishments of the Class of 2013. We are enormously proud of all that you contributed to this vibrant and talented community. I provide this summary at Commencement each year, recognizing that I couldn't possibly include all that your class accomplished during the past four years. You leave behind an important legacy to this institution and we all thank you.
The Rabbi and the Wagon Driver
Baccalaureate Address: May 25, 2013
The Baccalaureate address, going back to its roots more than 500 years ago, was to be the final sermon, a religious address, to the graduating class. It originated at Oxford in 1432, and its sermons were invariably Christian. The president of the college or university usually gave this address; however, given my own religious background, and the fact that I am one of only a handful of the College's 16 presidents not to have been an ordained minister, it would be quite a challenge to retain the full tradition of the Baccalaureate address.
I should also note that, according to historical records, Baccalaureate speeches are often intermixed with musical performances, drama, and worship, and the main address can range in length from under 10 minutes to as long as four hours. Have no fear! Though we have been graced today by our wonderful College choir, I am far more likely by disposition to present a shorter rather than longer speech, and that will certainly be the case today.
I will adhere to tradition only to the extent that I view today's Baccalaureate service as my opportunity to speak to you as a class for the final time before you graduate.
Although this is by no means a religious address, it draws upon lessons from the Talmud, the 2,000-year-old collection of rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition. In fact, the Talmud is much more than a collection of writings. According to Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, a leading Talmudic commentator and translator, "The Talmud is . . . a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, anecdotes, and humor. Although its main objective is to interpret and comment on a book of law, it is, simultaneously, a work of art that goes beyond legislation and its practical application."
The particular story I am about to re-tell and which forms the basis of my message to the graduating class has been adopted by Jewish communities over many centuries. It has used different names and geographical settings. This particular version, adapted for young children, and discovered for me earlier this year through our family's nightly ritual of bedtime reading, appears in A Treasury of Jewish Bedtime Stories by Shmuel Blitz. And the story goes like this:
The rabbi of Pinsk wanted to meet the people of Pichinev. "Prepare the wagon," he told Yussel his driver. "We're going to Pichinev."
During the trip, Yussel confessed, "Rabbi, I am jealous of you. When we arrive in Pichinev all the people will crowd around the wagon, giving you much honor and respect. But me, they will ignore. And they don't really know either of us. If I would be wearing your clothing instead of my rags, the people would think I'm the rabbi and would honor me instead."
The rabbi felt sorry for Yussel. "If receiving honor is so important to you, then I will be happy to switch clothing. But what will you answer if the people ask you a hard question about Jewish law?" the rabbi asked.
"Don't worry." answered Yussel. "It will be fine."
The two men exchanged clothing. The rabbi put on Yussel's old patched coat, while Yussel put on the rabbi's black satin coat. When they arrived in Pichinev, the people came to greet the rabbi. But they honored Yussel the wagon driver. They ignored the real rabbi of Pinsk.
"Rabbi, we are so glad that you came," the leaders of Pichinev said to Yussel. "We have a very difficult question." They brought over a large book and pointed out a problem that no one in the town could solve.
Yussel took the book and looked intently at it. He ran one hand over the page and the other hand through his beard. He rubbed his brow and coughed a few times.
Finally, he looked up at the townspeople and said, "This is the kind of simple question you ask me? I thought you would ask me something difficult. This question is so easy, even my wagon driver could answer it. Go ask him!!!"
They did. And of course the learned rabbi knew just what to say.
On the surface, this is a rather straight forward story: a person of means helps a person of lesser means attain happiness. The rabbi, routinely showered with respect and admiration because of his decades of study, recognized learnedness, and his crucial role as arbiter of disputes ranging from the routine to the absurd, agrees to switch clothes with his wagon driver. In doing so, he ultimately conveys to the wagon driver the attention and respect of the people of a small village. The wagon driver is fulfilled and the rabbi feels good because he has done a good deed…a mitzvah—an act of human kindness.
If we wanted to tailor this tale to our graduates' circumstances, one might say that Yussel the wagon driver exhibited the kind of on-one's-feet nimble thinking we would expect from graduates who are educated in the liberal arts tradition at Middlebury: able to analyze and size-up situations rather quickly and then offer up a plausible and maybe even brilliant solution to what might appear to be an insoluble conundrum. It takes very little to concoct the clothes-swapping caper to create an outer appearance of the wagon driver being something he was not. It requires another level of imagination and thinking, however, to exercise the kind of moxie that Yussel exhibited in order to preserve what was for him such a jubilant moment.
But typical of most tales whose origins are in the Talmud, there is much more embedded in this story than these interpretations. Some of the less-than-apparent questions and messages raised within it are important ones for you, as you reflect on your liberal arts education both today and, perhaps more importantly, over the course of your lives. Here are just a few:
Why did the rabbi choose not to use the wagon driver's admitted jealousy and covetousness as a teachable moment? One might expect the rabbi to have either ignored Yussel's request, or to have engaged him in some prolonged discussion and learning about his self-proclaimed jealousy, a form of covetousness, which is, of course, forbidden by the Tenth Commandment. A rabbi's duty is to teach and so why the silence?
Why did the rabbi accept Yussel's "It will be fine" reply about what would happen if he were asked a difficult question? Rabbis are known to ask many questions and are rarely satisfied with one answer. Yet in this case, the rabbi accepted a rather flippant four-word response to an important question, the answer to which, if left only vaguely considered, could lead Yussel to be exposed as an imposter; and could put the Rabbi's reputation itself at risk; and…
What might the people of Pichinev have learned from seeing a wagon driver answer their difficult question when not even the most learned in their village could answer it?
Crucial to answering all of these questions is an understanding of the values and objectives that governed the rabbi's choices and actions. As we discovered in this story, the rabbi, who had all the facts and learnedness he needed to dissuade the wagon driver from doing something he might later regret, chose not to pursue that path. He had the self-confidence necessary to defy how those around him might have expected him to put his learnedness to work. As a result, the rabbi was able to fulfill his own desire to treat his wagon driver with compassion, even in the face of the wagon driver's problematic request.
Perhaps, too, the rabbi intended to use Yussel's desire to exchange identities to teach the people of Pichinev that wisdom can come from anyone, not solely from those identified as learned or carrying the title rabbi. In this way, the rabbi was able to teach an important lesson to the people of Pichinev.
The rabbi's clarity about his objectives of compassion and education, and his independent-mindedness regarding ways of achieving his objectives, seems to me to be the key take-away of this story for you now, as you find yourselves taking stock of your own learnedness.
My hope is that you have been educated here in a way that will provide you with that same kind of clarity, bravery, and confidence as you contemplate and navigate the challenging grey areas that stand between you and the complex world you will soon enter. Your liberal arts education has provided you with an impressive breadth and depth of knowledge, but what is now most important is for you to draw upon those gifts to examine the objectives and values that motivate your actions. As part of this process, you will strengthen your resolve to resist "group think" and acting in "lock step" just as, in the story, the rabbi pursued his objective of compassion and education in a way that might have challenged community expectations of rabbinic behavior.
Commencement, of course, means "the beginning" of something, not the end. As you leave Middlebury to begin the next exciting and challenging chapter of your lives, may you always be cognizant of the riches of your liberal arts education—how it has prepared you to think critically and to think on your feet, to accept ambiguity as part of everyday life, to differentiate between facts and emotion when considering complex issues, and to draw upon the multiple ways you have learned to know what you know—through positivist, data-based analysis as well as through more humanistic approaches—so you may, like the rabbi, choose right and do right by the values that govern you and motivate you. After all, isn't that the value and the beauty of a liberal arts education?
Members of the Class of 2013: we look forward to following your progress, celebrating your successes, and welcoming you back to campus often…dressed in whatever clothes you wish!
Thank you, and best of luck.


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Once the king of the rear projection world, CRT technology is getting increasingly sidelined by its newer DLP rival. But it's hanging on thanks to its attractive screen size/price ratio - a talent exemplified by Samsung's SP42Q2HD, with 42in of pictures for just £750.
And this lowly figure doesn't just get you a basic specification. In fact, the set sports progressive scan processing, a built-in Freeview tuner and even high definition capability. Sound too good to be true?
Samsung has clearly tried to be stylish with the SP42Q2HD's broad black and grey bands and minimalist finish but the results actually look pretty ugly. The finish is plasticky, too.
Things look up considerably on the connections front: component video jacks deliver analogue in (PALonly) high definition, and there's progressive scan. There's no digital input, limiting the TV's compatibility with next gen HD sources but it should work fairly well with Sky's first-generation HD box.
The TV also carries three Scarts, and a CAM slot for adding Top Up TV to the digital tuner.
The SP42Q2 also backs up its digital tuner with the Freeview 7-day EPG including programme category filtering. However, this guide is abysmally slow to navigate, and will only let you set reminders from it, not full blown recording timer events.
Elsewhere there are Natural and Digital picture presets as well as the aforementioned progressive one; noise reduction; Virtual Dolby audio; and a handy Self Focus system that automatically converges the red, green and blue of the CRT picture.
Sadly, while the SP42Q2 sounds great on paper, its picture performance is a huge disappointment. For starters the image looks very soft and unfocussed, as well as strangely fragile, with an almost translucent look to peak whites.
The set's image processing also struggles, exaggerating any noise in an image, and introducing more noise of its own. The image mode that causes the least artefacts (Progressive),also suffers with aggressive image flicker.
More trouble comes from bright spots in a picture, which can cause streaks across the screen, and the nasty way harsh edges are plagued by glimmering halos, making the picture look uneven and disjointed.
There are one or two plus points to report. Black levels are fair; motion is quite natural (it suffers none of DLP's noise or LCD's smearing); colours are reasonably vivid and fairly, though not spectacularly, natural in tone; and Self Focus does an OK job of aligning CRT's red, green and blue colours. But the bad stuff rules.
Samsung puts the SP42Q2's bulk to good use with its audio, as it delivers plenty of bass, lots of audio detailing, and enough breathing room to open up for a raucous action scene.
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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Abby Wambach scored for the 23rd time this year, but the U.S. had to settle for a 2-2 tie with Germany on Tuesday, the teams' second draw in four days.
Dzenifer Marozsan scored twice for the Germans, including the equalizer in the 85th minute.
Tobin Heath gave the U.S. a 2-1 lead in the 67th minute on an assist from Alex Morgan, who had two in the match. Goaltender Hope Solo made six saves for the Americans, who are on a celebration tour after their Olympic victory.
The Germans had ended a 14-match winning streak for the Americans with a 1-1 draw in Chicago on Saturday. The U.S. never trailed on Tuesday night, but never seemed in control either. Germany outshot the U.S. 16-8.
They tied the match when Marozsan took a pass from Linda Bresonik, dribbled into the penalty area and beat Hope Solo to the left for the equalizer.
The team's played in a steady rain Tuesday and remained scoreless into the 44th minute. That's when Megan Rapinoe made a run down the left sideline and found Morgan who put a beautiful crossing pass into the box. Germany's Annike Krahn got a foot on the ball, but not enough to redirect the pass and Wambach was waiting to head it down and into the goal.
Marozsan, came into the game in the second half, and quickly evened things up. U.S. captain Christie Rampone slipped at midfield, giving Marozsan a clear run down the center of the field, where she ran onto Solo and put it past her in the 48th minute.
Wambach had a chance to break the tie in the 59th minute when German defender Luisa Wensing slipped down, but her attempt to lob the ball over the charging goaltender didn't get high enough and Nadine Angerer came down with the save.
Solo made two great saves in the 65th and 66th minutes on shots from Anja Mittag and Marozsan. The second led to an American attack that ended when Morgan made a beautiful sliding pass from the goal line back in front where Wambach whiffed on a shot, but Heath was waiting behind her and put the ball into the net.
Solo made another save in the 72nd minute on a shot from Marozsan from nearly point-blank range.
The US dodged an early bullet less than 3 minutes into the match when Kelley O'Hara was called for a foul just outside the 18-yard box, but Alexandra Popp's free kick from straight on sailed over the goal.
It was the second game the United States has played since former coach Pia Sundhage left the team she led to the gold medal at the London Olympics.
The Americans came into the contest 17-4-5 against the Germans, the only other team to win two World Cups or be ranked No. 1. The Americans were, who haven't lost since a 1-0 setback to Japan on March 5, are 6-0-3 in matches involving the world's top two teams.
"For us, this isn't necessarily about the result on the field," Wambach said. "This is about sharing the gold medal, sharing this team with all the people in the stands."
Sundhage stepped down in September after five years as coach and is now coaching her native Sweden's national team. She had led the U.S. to back-to-back Olympic titles, as well as their first World Cup final in 12 years. She finished with a 91-6-10 record, including 23-1-1 this year alone.
U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati said this month that he hoped to select the new coach by next month, though it's possible the new coach might not start until January — especially if the coach is involved in an NCAA tournament.
Jill Ellis, the development director for the U.S. women's national teams, is serving as interim coach.
"Pia was great for us, she was a really good motivator, she managed the team really well," said Alex Morgan. "So going forward we're looking for someone to go above and beyond. Just someone who brings everyone together, brings everyone in on the same page and prepares us for the World Cup."
The U.S. team had been on a break since beating Australia on Sept. 19 in the third game of their post-Olympic victory tour. They got back together Thursday to begin preparations for Germany.
Germany, meanwhile, is in prime form as it gets ready for next year's European championships.
"The fitness level of this team is pretty transparent in my opinion," Wambach said. "We haven't been training as much. But we can't. People think we can be a full year-round team. But that's just impossible. We have to decondition in order to start preparing for the World Cup come January."
Wambach's goal was the 148th of her career.


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Once you are nourishing your skin from the inside properly, take care of it on the outside by implementing a skin care regimen. Step one is to clean your face in the morning and at night to remove the dirt and oil that builds up on your skin. Step two is to apply a moisturizer. Look for a product that has a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or higher. If you plan to be outdoors for an extended time, make sure you apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen to your skin every two to three hours. Clean, moisturize, and protect; this will help with a longer youthful look.
Exercise is another way to help retain your youthful appearance. It benefits your overall health, including increasing blood circulation – which is vital in delivering nutrients and oxygen to your cells so they may function properly. Your skin is a living organ and depends on good circulation to stay healthy. Get moving!
Think about trying a rejuvenation procedure such as a chemical peel. It is one of the oldest forms of rejuvenation; it is less invasive than surgery and offers different levels of strength. The peel will improve skin tone, enhance texture, and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. You may want to consider a facelift – there are varying "facelifts" from the liquid lift to the traditional facelift.
A non-invasive, liquid facelift provides youthful fullness without any downtime. Soft injectable fillers are used to reduce the appearance of lines and plump areas affected by volume loss. There is no downtime; however, the results may last between six months to a year. The traditional facelift entails removing excess sagging skin and lifting and repositioning the skin, underlying tissue, and muscles. The results are permanent; however, you have not stopped the clock.
It is never too early to fight the aging process-start with a good diet, skin care, and exercise. You may also want to explore a more proactive treatment plan to set back the clock. Trust your face to a facial plastic surgeon. Contact one now to schedule a consultation and discuss your treatment options.


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I'm sharing this story that I found on Treehugger.com because it showcases easy ways we can all reduce our energy consumption. Tray manufacturers may not like this concept, but I'm certain that you will.
Almost Half US Colleges Go Trayless. Why? by Kristin Underwood, Sacramento, CA on 05. 4.09 Food & Health (food)
When I started hearing that colleges were going trayless all I could think was, "how is saving plastic by not using a couple of trays going to cut down on the environmental footprint of a campus that is the size of a small town?" Well actually, according to the New York Times, several studies have been done now pointing to rather large savings, and we're not just talking waistlines. As almost half of the 300 schools with the largest endowments across the US go trayless, we thought we would take another look at this latest method to save some green. So how does not using a tray benefit the environment? Apparently using that tray allows students to stockpile food like they're in a depression era – the same food that many of the studies found also ends up completely uneaten and in the garbage. If you only have your two hands to hold your dinner, then your eyes are suddenly not bigger than stomach and you mentally weigh getting up repeatedly to get more food with just eating what you have and only going back if you're actually still hungry. Going trayless also helps save water because as students conserve plates, silverware and cups, it also means extra water isn't being used to wash all of those items. Some students report that the trayless dining halls make the area feel closer to home and less like an institution. Another benefit – students are less likely to gain the freshman 15 because they don't have a way to just pile the tray high with food and sweets and breads and cakes and several drinks. Benefits of Colleges Going Trayless Williams College saved 14,000 gallons of water last year by changing one dining hall to a trayless system. They plan to change their other 3 dining halls to trayless due to the successful program. Rochester Institute of Technology noticed a 10% drop in food costs by going trayless, despite rising food prices during the same period. Moravian College (PA) is going completely trayless starting this fall after they had such a successful "Trayless Tuesdays" program. Their studies showed a 25% savings in food waste and as many as 25% of the student body now voluntarily chooses to go trayless every time they eat in the cafeteria. Moravian College has also committed that all financial savings they achieve through the program will be reinvested into the cafeteria and food programs. American University (DC) environmental science students conducted their own research on going trayless and found that there was a 47.1% savings of food waste during the dinner hour and a 30.8% reduction in plates and bowls. Both sectors also had savings during the lunch hour, though the percentages were lower. One casualty of going trayless: the loss of automatic sleds when the first snow of the season hits. As a student on the east coast who had never seen snow before college, and who also remembers vividly clambering for a cafeteria tray for both shield and shovel during the school snowfight, this is a big loss. A big loss indeed. :New York Times:Moravia College :American University More on Colleges Going Green Top 5 Colleges Going Green Focus on Focus Earth: Colleges Making the Green Grade 7 out of 10 College-Bound Students Prefer Green Universities Sororities Can Green Their Lives Through Sharing and Eco-Friendly Group Initiatives


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"This one was all for cathode ray tubes," he recalled. An engineer by trade, Mr. Lui was looking to source a small mountain of CRTs. To accomplish that, he came full circle back to his native China, where he was born 71 years ago in Sichuan province.


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Vivantes Hospital in Friedrichshain
Specialist field: Neurology / neurosurgery
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The Centre for Base of Skull and Spinal Surgery at the Vivantes Hospital in Friedrichshain, Berlin, which is headed up by Professor Dag Moskopp, offers a broad range of neurosurgical diagnostics and therapies. Neurosurgery is a relatively new discipline that involves close collaboration with other fields of medicine as many physical disorders are also manifested in the central nervous system.
Neurosurgeons treat patients with complaints such as visual, hearing and circulatory problems, head and spinal injuries, hormonal disorders and unexpected weight gain. Before providing treatment, the highly competent team in Professor Dag Moskopp's neurosurgical department evaluates the results of diagnostic tests such as X-rays, CTs and MRIs, neurological evidence and findings from opticians and decide on the appropriate therapy based on the individual patient's diagnosis.
The wide range of conditions means treatment is carried out jointly with the vascular surgery unit or the various tumour centres and radiology department. Slipped discs, which can occur in any section of the spine, often require neurosurgical treatment as well.
Before an operation is considered, neurosurgical specialists check whether less invasive therapies would be appropriate, such as neuroradiology using special catheters. If neurosurgery is required, highly specialised techniques are used on the central nervous system and surrounding organs.
At the Department of Neurosurgery at the Vivantes Hospital in Friedrichshain, over 95 per cent of operations employ the latest technologies, such as a highly advanced surgical microscope with which surgeons can use targeted, minimally invasive methods. Special lighting and close-up images allow diseased structures to be removed while preserving the surrounding healthy tissue. Bypasses can be sewn using threads that are finer than a human hair.
Professor Dag Moskopp is Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Vivantes and heads up the Centre for Base of Skull and Spinal Surgery. Each year, around 1,200 operations are performed under his stewardship – of which 800 are on the spine. A slipped disc can be very painful and is very common in Germany. Unhealthy lifestyles may lead to this condition, which is treated either conservatively with special physiotherapy and pain therapy or by an operation followed by physiotherapy. The actual operation often uses minimally invasive techniques, i.e. keyhole surgery, which require only a short stay in hospital of just a few days.
The department's areas of focus also include emergency care, such as treatment of traumatic brain injuries following an accident, the sudden onset of symptoms such as cramp, visual or hearing problems or disturbance of consciousness, for example caused by an increased accumulation of fluid or a lack of drainage, known as hydrocephalus or water in the brain.
Professor Moskopp has also offered dedicated hypophysis consultations for the past 20 or so years. "During these consultations, I see couples who want to speed up the process of becoming pregnant," says Professor Moskopp. The hypophysis – the pituitary gland – is responsible for the release of hormones in the head. Microsurgery on this important gland is also used to remove tumours that can lead to excessive production of hormones and then, for example, visual problems.
Special interdisciplinary and neuropaediatric therapy is provided for children. This is because children are not simply smaller versions of adults, and treatment requires a particularly sensitive approach that takes account of the metabolism of children.
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If you want, I can host the manual on my vintage computing archive.
If you want, I can host the manual on my vintage computing archive.
By all means pop a copy on the above site, but Bitsavers is THE place. The more places the merrier, and there are sick looneys out there who like hacking/wrecking archives.
It's quite a bit of work doing the scanning etc, I was trying to get a sheet feeding scanner sorted, but they seem to go at a premium on ebay. I have heaved a sigh of relief that the 3-foot-thick pile of dec & cdc manuals I have are already in the public domain.
Thanks to the comments so far I feel confident enough to check out the psu and then hit the on switch without fitting the memory mapper. however as usual, my weekend evaporated!
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what youve got til its gone" (BANG )
Both sites sound good. Bitsavers seems more appropriate, but looking at their general requirements, it seems they cater for true mini/mainframe computers rather than a home micro with a 'mini' cpu. Thoughts before I jump through the hoops of bothering them?
The whtech site Ksarul talks about looks good too since there is a lot of TI stuff on there, but still waiting to see if it's possible to use that site. Ksarul?
In any case, first I have to build up my collection of pdf's and binaries, but need to be sure I have a good place to share it before I put the effort in!
Nige: With regards to the sheet feeder/scanner, all we have is a Brother MFC-490CW scanner/fax/printer and it cost about $99, which isn't a lot...
I've got an upload account on WHTech, so if you get the data to me, I can put it up there for you. Alternatively, you can ask the owner for one of your own--he usually grants them immediately to people he's seen in the community before, though he might ask you a few more questions since you're new to him.
Thanks Ksarul, I'll just send you the stuff. I brand new to this so wouldn't want to insult someone for an account when they don't know me from Adam! Once I get some scans etc., I'll let you know and we'll take it from there. I'll upload to others when I get it all together.
Here's a link to the CORTEX POWER BASIC Manual. I uploaded it today and created a Cortex folder for future submissions.
Many thanks for taking the time to scan the documentation you have TMS9995!
Wow - awesome job with the Cortex Power Basic manual. I haven't looked at that for years (mine's still in the UK) and certainly brings back some memories! I will make an effort to get the emulator tidied up and posted (not that much to do) as you can apply this manual right away!
Just found out my cheap scanner slows down considerably after you shove more that about 25 pages through it. I guess it has to cool down...
Many thanks--I ran it through an OCR program and then edited it to make sure no errors crept into the resulting document. . .
Many many thanks Ksarul, the dialect looks a little strange. I probably would run into a few unfathomable walls in the first few lines without it.
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Hi everyone, I was a pleasantly surprise to find this forum with such recent activity about the Cortex.
I was one of the developers of the Cortex along with Jim Gill, Neil Quarmby, Colin Hinson and Ian White so I can fill you in on a lot of the history behind the Cortex and info on both the hardware and the software.
I still have 2 of the machines up in the loft somewhere although they haven't been powered up for a few years.


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Buckingham Palace intends to deal with the Prince Harry scandal by continuing 'business as usual' royal sources said today.
That much will also be made plain when Harry's paralympic schedule is announced later today.
Harry is an ambassador for the Team GB Paralympics squad, will attend a number of the events over the coming weeks.
Royal sources told the Telegraph he was not expected to change any of his official commitments in the light of the controversy over his drunken weekend in Las Vegas, which resulted in photographs of him playing a game of "strip billiards" being published around the world.
A Royal source told the paper: "It is just business as usual. There are no changes to his programme at all."
Harry will not join his grandmother, the Queen, at the high-profile Opening Ceremony of the Games on Wednesday night, but the source stressed that he had never been scheduled to attend.


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Ed Lasher has a simple way to measure how cool his job is—he just counts how many people have offered to carry his bags on a service call. Lasher is the owner of YachtComputing LLC, a small IT business with a very exclusive niche: installing and maintaining networks and Internet connectivity aboard "superyachts," seagoing mansions owned by wealthy individuals and charter companies. "It's a distinct category—bigger than yachts, bigger than mega-yachts," said Lasher. "It's the very top end of the private yachting industry."
Lasher, a former banker with an MBA in finance, works out of Miami, Florida. He traded in the suit and tie some time ago; his work uniform now is a company polo shirt, jeans, and (usually) bare feet—shoes aren't yacht-work friendly. But he didn't originally set out to be an IT gypsy of the high seas. Lasher started doing tech work as a partner in a consulting firm, installing networks for business customers.
In 1999, the firm picked up a new customer—a company that specialized in high-tech, high-end audio and video suites for super-yachts. That connection would change his business unexpectedly. In 2001, that customer had trouble with an IT vendor they had recommended for a project in Holland.
So they called in Lasher to finish the project: installing a network and satellite Internet access on the Detroit Eagle, a 153-foot long, three-deck motor yacht being built for Roger Penske. (Penske sold the yacht and bought another a few years ago. The Detroit Eagle, since renamed Sea Racer, is currently up for sale—and the asking price is just shy of $30 million.)
At the time, Lasher says, he didn't know a thing about satellite communications, but he managed to complete the project well enough that it got noticed. "My introduction to the industry was a very high-end boat," he said. "The industry is a tight community where everyone talks to everyone." So he got called to build out more and more networks—on larger and larger boats.
He liked the niche, so he turned his focus more and more towards the yachting side. In 2003, after splitting with his consulting partner, he formed YachtComputing LLC. The yacht IT business "is a niche that supports what I call the craftsman service model," Lasher said. Today, he only has two remaining land-based customers.
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Lasher's clients are people who want to be just as connected at sea as they are in the office. That desire has made his expertise in demand. "I wish I could say that I planned for this success," he said. He owes a lot of it to the changes in commercial satellite networking—and the insatiable digital habits of his customer base.
"On the first boat I did, the idea of high-speed satellite at the time was 64 kilobits per second at $8 a minute, so the business problem was to maximize your utilization of a very slow connection." But the evolution of commercial VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) technology has changed that, with satellite providers offering fixed-price, unlimited use connections with speeds ranging up to 4Mbps. "It completely changed the dimensions of the problem," he said.
While the amount of bandwidth available at sea has increased, so has the demand. "Now the problem is that everybody has iPads, iPhones, tablets, laptops, and streaming video connections," said Lasher, "and you have to control the utilization of that online-all-the-time connection. You have slower throughput than most of the world expects, and you have to make it look as fast as what they have at the office."
With guests, crewmembers, and various shipboard systems competing for chunks of limited bandwidth, part of what Lasher does in configuring broadband access for his customers includes throttling and filtering what's going over the connection—and screening what's coming back. His typical shipboard network includes a Kerio Control firewall, which he configures to filter and prioritize network traffic passing through the VSAT link. The firewall also provides antivirus protection and network monitoring, and a VPN connection that allows his company to perform remote maintenance and support when customers are cruising.
But maintaining the illusion of perpetual connectivity isn't always easy. The VSAT systems Lasher works with need to be fine-tuned to stay locked on the satellite they get their service from; and just like anything else with moving parts, they occasionally have idiosyncrasies. "When you have an impending charter trip [and] the charter guests have spent anywhere from $350,000 to $500,000 for the trip plus gas plus food, they're not going to be happy if they find out that the VSAT isn't working," Lasher mused. "You end up in Amsterdam dangling at the end of a cable in a boatswain's chair in a 45-mile-an-hour wind trying to fix the issue."
The types of antennas Lasher works with are slaved to the yacht's navigation system and to an internal GPS to keep them trained on the right spot in the sky. They're also gyro-stabilized, with an internal gyro similar to the one in Apple's iPhone, he said. Usually placed at the top of a mast, the rocking and pitching of the yacht can whip the antenna around and knock it out of alignment with the satellite.
So having to go up into the antenna's dome and replace stabilization components is a common task—one that requires suppressing a fear of heights. "Last week I was in Jacksonville, Florida on a yacht, looking around from up in the dome, and I was above the top of the span (of the Dames Point Bridge, which is 175 feet above the St. John's River). It was a little daunting."
Going aloft aside, "95 percent of what we're doing is inside a gorgeous air-conditioned house that just happens to float," Lasher admitted. And the technology he works with aboard isn't all that much different than what you'd use ashore—albeit with a little more shock protection. "We will use more solid state hard drives than the average person," he said. "Otherwise, it's a fairly equipment-friendly environment."
Being a craftsman means that Lasher can keep his company small. Upgrading or repairing existing installations usually only requires a very limited number of people; when Lasher gets a larger project, such as a network installation on a newly built boat, he'll contract out for cable installation and focus his attention on the systems integration and programming.
The super-yacht IT business comes with a very long commute. "The nice thing is I've gotten the opportunity to see places I probably would have never traveled to myself," Lasher said. About one trip, he said, "the bad news is that I had to work near Christmas, but the good news was I was in Florence, Italy for Christmas Eve."
Work on new yachts during their construction takes Lasher to where their shipyards are—primarily Holland, Germany, and Italy. An increasing number—such as the 463-foot S/Y Dream Symphony, the largest private sailing yacht ever constructed—are being built in Turkey. But for yachts that are already afloat, he travels even further afield.
Usually, his work is done while a yacht is dockside somewhere. But Lasher says that 25 percent of the time—in the case of an outage or other circumstances—he follows the yachts to where they travel—which is often in the Caribbean during the winter, and the Mediterranean or Ionian Sea during the summer. Lasher also has customers in the South Pacific, "so I've been to Papua New Guinea, and all over Southeast Asia," he added. One new installation called for a trip to Tahiti—where flight schedules forced him to stay an extra day and get in some snorkeling with humpback whales.
In one case, where an owner was buying a boat, Lasher and a team working with him had to meet the yacht in Athens, where it was moored. Then the owner and buyer took the boat out to international waters to close the deal offshore. "When it was closed, the owners jumped on a cigarette boat and headed back to Athens," he said, "and we spent the next three days pulling cables while the yacht sailed to Cannes."
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"Degenerative changes are seen at T3, T4, and TSH."
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"Degenerative changes are seen at T3, T4, and TSH."
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Taking sales rep boasting to a whole new level: "Our new MRI is able to detect 100% more Hormones than those of our competitors, think of all the blood drawings you could avoid..."
- March 8, 2013 at 4:08 AM
- Tassiegal said...
TSH? Thats good... last I heard it was only able to be done via the yellow or red routes!
- March 8, 2013 at 5:27 AM
I have been taking thyroid medication for almost 20 years and I don't recall ever having an MRI on my spine done to check my TSH levels!
- March 8, 2013 at 7:57 AM
- Moose said...
The spine bone is connected to the thyroid bone?!
That explains so much about me...
- March 8, 2013 at 8:52 AM
- K said...
That made me laugh :D Sometimes you go on autopilot.
- March 8, 2013 at 9:10 AM
- Jaxxy said...
They can test your thyroid hormones by MRI now? Sweet!
- March 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM
- ndenunz said...
Now the imaging center can bill for an MRI of the thoracic spine AND the thyroid. Ka-ching
- March 8, 2013 at 12:05 PM
- stacey said...
Most likely scenario: Voice rec may have heard T7-8 as TSH
- March 8, 2013 at 12:29 PM
- Library-Gryffon said...
@Stacey Gordon, that's sort of what I was thinking. Or maybe it's an entry for "damn you, autocorrect!". A comment on another blog I read had had the name "Tam" changed to "Myer" by the poster's phone.
- March 8, 2013 at 12:55 PM
- Ms. Donna said...
Stacey, I bet Dr. G with his experience of "Draggin" Dictate, can confirm that as a possible cause for the blunder.
BUT aren't people supposed to proof this stuff? Lives are at stake.
- March 8, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Yep, yet another fine example of the neuro-endocrine feedback loop system at work.
Now, when we check your thyroid labs the results will also spit out an MRI report, works both ways.
- March 8, 2013 at 4:46 PM
You know how it is, you get to a certain age and everything starts going wrong at once.
(Actually it looks like it could be a text-expander generated error to me.)
- March 8, 2013 at 9:14 PM
Damnit Jim, I'm not an endocrinologist!
- March 9, 2013 at 8:02 AM
Five spine surgeries and umpteen MRIs and X-rays pre and post -- I KNEW they missed something!!
- March 9, 2013 at 8:50 PM
I design medical software...Some of our Urologist customers started using a certain voice-recognition software dictation system, and suddenly they were documenting "a reptile dysfunction" a lot.
This made me wonder...Is a Dragon a reptile?
- March 10, 2013 at 3:05 AM
- Don said...
Is a Dragon a reptile?
It depends on the author and the mythos involved.
Some dragons have a reputation for sunning themselves on hot rocks, like giant lizards. Leading some to believe they are reptiles.
Others have hot smoking blood, meaning they are exothermic not cold blooded, therefore, not reptiles.
Since paleontologists now believe that many dinosaurs were warm-blooded, put me in the not-reptile camp.
The only known species of dragon, currently not extinct, the Kimodo Dragons, are definitely reptiles.
- March 11, 2013 at 10:50 AM
- Ron said...
Gotta love DragonSpeak. My fav is when I say "patient" and it types "Haitian".
"34 year old Haitain seen today..."
One day, half my patients were Haitain.
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Mobile phone radiation may reverse Alzheimer's
Melbourne, Dec 8 : Radiations emitted from cell phones may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer's disease, a new study has revealed.
Researchers at the University of South Florida conducted a study that exposed 96 mice, most of whom had been genetically altered to develop the Alzheimer's disease as they aged, to electromagnetic waves generated by mobile phones.
The mice were zapped with 918MHz of frequency twice a day for one hour each time over a period of seven to nine months - the equivalent of several decades in humans, the Herald Sun reported.
The study revealed that in older mice with Alzheimer's, long-standing exposure to the electromagnetic fields caused deposits in the brain of beta-amyloid, a protein fragment that accumulates in the brain of Alzheimer's sufferers to form the disease's signature plaques, to be erased.
Memory impairment in the older mice also vanished, the study showed.
Young adult mice with no apparent signs of memory impairment were protected against Alzheimer's disease after several months of exposure to the mobile phone waves.
And the memory levels of normal mice with no genetic inclination for Alzheimer's disease were enhanced after exposure to the electromagnetic waves.
"Frankly, I started this work a few years ago with a hypothesis that the electromagnetic fields from a mobile phone would be deleterious to Alzheimer''s mice," said lead author Gary Arendash, a professor at the University of Southern Florida.
Based on the findings in mice, the researchers anticipate that electromagnetic field exposure could be an effective, non-invasive and drug-free way to prevent and cure Alzheimer's disease in humans. (ANI)


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Matt Damon, an actor with all-American looks and a winning smile, has had an eclectic career, coming into the spotlight with his childhood friend in a movie they wrote and starred in. Since then, he has taken on darker roles, played the charmer and acted in adventure movies.
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Actors and friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck react to winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Good Will Hunting" at the 70th Academy Awards in Los Angeles March 23, 1998. The Massachusetts-born and Harvard-educated actor moved into the spotlight with this movie about a math genius, in which he and Affleck also starred.
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Damon displays the Male Star of Tomorrow award, presented to him during the 24th Annual ShoWest Awards ceremony, March 12, 1998, in Las Vegas. Damon won for his work in the movie "Good Will Hunting." His acting career began with bit parts in "Mystic Pizza" and "School Ties," and critics began to take notice after he played a small but critical role in 1996's "Courage Under Fire."
Damon and "Good Will Hunting" costar Minnie Driver, who were dating at the time, share a moment before the film's Los Angeles premiere in 1997.
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Damon followed up "Hunting" with a lead role in "Rounders," which is about poker. Here, he competes in the 29th Annual World Series of Poker Texas Hold'em no limit event, May 11, 1998, at Binion's Horseshoe Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. The event cost $10,000 to buy in, with the winner collecting more than $1 million.
Damon began to take on serious roles and star in darker movies, such as "The Talented Mr. Ripley," in which he played the murderous title character. Here, the cast poses for photos during a news conference at the Berlin International Film Festival, Feb. 13, 2000. Damon is at right with Jude Law, left, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Damon, right, and Ben Affleck, teamed up again as executive producers of "Project Greenlight." Here, they chat before speaking to Television Critics Association members during HBO's part of the TCA summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif., July 13, 2001. Project Greenlight is a filmmaking contest and documentary series chronicling the making of a feature film.
Damon soon became one of Hollywood's "golden boys," turning up on the red carpet at premieres and award ceremonies. Here, then-girlfriend Wynona Ryder kisses Damon upon their arrival at the 57th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Jan 23, 2000.
Damon also dated Odessa Whitmire, seen here with Damon in Taipei, Aug. 22, 2002. He was in Taiwan to promote his movie, "The Bourne Identity."
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Damon married Argentine-born Luciana Barroso in 2005. They have one child and are expecting another. Here, they wait for a Red Sox game to begin at Boston's Fenway Park, July 6, 2004.
Damon poses for photographers during Deauville's American Film Festival to promote "The Bourne Identity" directed by Doug Liman, Sept. 6, 2002, in Deauville, western France.
Damon also was promoting another movie during his stay in France, Here, he poses for photographers during a photo op at Deauville's American Film Festival Sept. 8, 2002 to promote his film, "Gerry."
Damon often has escorted his mother, Nancy, to events in Hollywood and New York. Here, they attend the premiere of the IMAX film "Stomp: An Odysee" at New York's American Museum of Natural History, Oct. 17, 2002.
Damon landed a part in George Clooney's 2001 remake of "Ocean's Eleven." Here he poses with the all-star cast, from left: Clooney, Brad Pitt, Damon, Elliott Gould, and Don Cheadle.
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In Berlin in November 2003, Damon poses during a photo opportunity for Universal Pictures' "Bourne" series, shot on locations in Germany, Russia and India.
Damon, Eva Mendes and Greg Kinnear arrive at the special New York screening of "Stuck on You," held at New York's Clearview Chelsea West Theater, December 2003.
Conjoined twins Bob Tenor (Damon, left) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear) display their talents in the 2003 comedy "Stuck on You."
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Damon arrives at the premiere of the espionage thriller "The Bourne Supremacy," at the Cinerama Dome and Arclight Cinemas in Los Angeles, July 15, 2004.
Damon as Jason Bourne, and Julia Stiles as Nicky, in "The Bourne Supremacy."
Matt Damon and George Clooney in the political thriller "Syriana" (2005).
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Matt Damon and Heath Ledger played con men who would rid villages of supernatural spirits - until they confronted very real monsters in Terry Gilliam's comic fantasy, "The Brothers Grimm" (2005).
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Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning "The Departed" (2006).
Matt Damon, Tim Roth and Hansell Campos in Francis Ford Coppola's "Youth Without Youth" (2007).
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Jason Isaacs and Matt Damon in "Green Zone" (2009).
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Matt Damon starred as a whistleblower in the 2009 caper "The Informant!"
Matt Damon received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination portraying Francois Pienaar, captain of the South African rugby team, in Clint Eastwood's "Invictus."
Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood's tale of people seeking answers about an afterlife in "Hereafter" (2010).
Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges star in the Coen Brothers' remake of "True Grit," based on the novel by Charles Portis.
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Matt Damon stars as the Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, a character played by Glen Campbell in the original 1969 film version of "True Grit."
Matt Damon attends the premiere of "True Grit" at New York's Ziegfeld Theatre, Dec. 14, 2010.
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Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges attend the premiere of "True Grit" at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Dec. 14, 2010, in New York.
Actor Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso attend the premiere of "True Grit" at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Dec. 14, 2010, in New York.